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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE Kentucky idea is that this great country
revolves around the whisky ring Macon Tele-
graph.
three cheers for st. John first aud then three for
God and humanity. -Cleveland Leader
'TwIxT the English lion and the Russian bear
the Sultan of Turkey is kept almost as comfort
able a fly hot stove cover.-Philadelphi
Times.
HIGH license operates we'll in Minnesota. The
number of bar-rooms has decreased under it to a
marked extent. That is the only way legally to
handle the liquor traffic with any effect-Bos-
ton Transcript.
SENATOR VOORHEES,. of Indiana, wants the
liars to let him alone. Hero is a pretty broad
hint to the Democratic organs now engaged in
booming the irritable Daniel for V1ce-president
philadelphia Press.
THE prohibitionists of Ohio have got their
State ticket fairly in the field. So far we
understand it their platform is in substances:
Half loaf is worse than no bread and limited
drinking is worse than free whisky. -Philadel
phia Press
THE world belongs to those who control
themselves. But drinking men never can do
that. They may subscribe to any programme,
they may find any opportunities. but they will
fail in carrying out the one and IN utilizing the
other.-New York Tribune.
In his third alleged letter jeff Davis has come
to the conclusion that those rebel battle flags
ought to be returned. As jeff was OF the opin-
ion that they should never have been taken
away, his present opinion could have been an tlci-
pated.-Pittsburg Dispatch
IT is of prime Importance not only to the legal
profession itself, but to the community we'll,
the standard of honor and purity be maintained
high in that profession. This cannot be done if
prominent members of the profession may APP
pear to engage conspcuonsly in questionable or
rascally practices without being called to account
even forfeitine their professional standing.
New York Herald.
THE Gettysburg meeting of soldiers was one
in which Lincoln would gladly have partici-
pated; the words there spoken were often his
own, always such as he would have aprro red.
Their utterance cannot but have healing and
a comforting effect wherever they read The
North accepts them as the sentiments of the
Southern soldiers, and hopes that they may be-
como the sentiments of Southern politicians
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

THE Fourteenth National Conference of Char
tiles and Corrections will meet at Omaha, Ne
braska, Thursday, August Is, instead Of Sep
tember l. as appointed at the last session. and
remain in session until Wednesday, August 81.
The meetings will be held in the Opera house
and Exposition Building. These national con-
ferences have steadily increased in importance
and usefulness. The thirteenth, held in st.
Paul, Minnesota, last year, was attended by
over $50 delegates and member from thirty-five
States. A well-oreanized local committee. at
Omaha, have made and are making admirable
arrangements for the comfort and convenience
of the delegates. The hotels Of Omaha have
made liberal reductions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05
The Double Bass.

Behold him there in the orchestra
That chap with the jumbo fiddle
Tho placid now is his vertebra-
As a cake an ice-cold griddle.
There will come a time when his spinal cord
VIII break at the temperate zone,
And you'll wonder how the man can afford
Such liberal slack of bone.
Just take him in! What frigid thing
He seems in quiet pose!
Like the center-pole in circus ring,
Or scare-crow waiting for crows;
Like a marble bust. tyla crust
Stuck up in solemn place,
Is the chap that soon will his jugular thrust
Ger the wing of the double bass
Ha hal The maestro's baton taps.
There's a stir in the broadcloth seam;
The hinge of the spinal column snaps
And crockett the elbow beam;
Anon there glides giant bow
Ger the fiddles big abdomen,
And the overture. in its easy flow,
Seems only pleasant omen.
But mark! There's an obligato called.
With an accelerando squirt,
And the way that bridge of size is mauleo
Imperils the old man S shirt,
For he dives down over the bulging breast
OF his ten-foot violin.
And saws and saws at the tough old chest
Till you'd thind he'd cave it in.
Then he wags his bow with a jerk and squeak
Thro rising agitato.
And the off hand seats up the wire bound peak
Like a bee-stung Thomas cat o!
The ague tackles his every limb,
The seams give way in his jacket,
And-well if you'd live to note his vim
At the grand finales racket,
You'd say, you saw his brisk coat-tails
In meteoric spatter,
And his whole anatomy whiz like fails
In an old-time threshing patter.
There isn't in the world, vow,
Or in t'other orbs of space.
That earns his bread BY the sweat of his brow
Like the chap of the double bass"
Wade Whipple. in the Judge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

Were Sharp's Lawyers Justified in Defend
ing Him They Did?

Were Sharp's Lawyers Justified in Defend
ing Him They Did?
New York Letter.
One of the most curious outcomes of the Sharp
case and one which will be, / think, very gener-
ally commented on, is the situation in which Mr.
Sharps lawyers now find themselves. This in
wolves the whole problem of legal ethics. The
question IS, has an honorable lawyer the right,
in consideration of immense fees paid to him. to
take charge of a case which is clearly that of a
guilty mani The counsel for Mr.. Sharp as I
more eminent men are to be found practicng in
our courts and they would be the first, proba-
bly,, to resent the imputation that they could be
bribed TO make truth appear falsehood and false
an instant that either Mr.. Sticknev or Mr. Par
sons. ex-Judge F. .on, Peter Mitchell,
any other of the ,lineuish ed gentlemen
employed to defend Sharp and to defeat justice,
was not fully aware that Sharp had for
years been corruptor of morality, q
menace to society, shameless lobbyist and
bride giverl An ans' such an inquiry is
found in the conduc .e itself on the
part of the defendai The counsel for Sharp
had not a scrap of ev. to offer in his behalf
They did all they could, within the rulings Of
Judge Barrett, to hamper and cripple the dis
trict attorney. They wasted weeks in selecting
a jury to their taste and they wasted days in
obsrructing witnesses, in making useless and
pretentious speeches They attempted to create
the Impression that Sharp was kind of mar
tyr, and that their faith in his honesty was
based upon strong legal evidence When, how
ever, they were forced to the point of proving
their case, they had TO prove. That
their course will be condemned by all upright
lawyers and by the bar associaton-tacitly, il
not openly-there be doubt whatever.
But they will be paid we'll for their trouble, and
it is Improbable taking into account the charac-
ter of Judge Barrett that Sharp will get off with
anything less than a heavy fine and few years
in Sing Sing Judge Barrett can hardly afford
to limit the punishment of Sharp to a fine OF
$4,000 which is the highest penalty here for
hrIbePy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

THERE has been nothing more fragrant and
audacious il the way of municipal corruption
Louis. After passing an ordinance, which
was bitterly opposed by the Jay Gould infu-
ence, and which was hailed as victory for
the people, the Council, at its next meeting,
turned squarely around and repealed the ordi-
nance. The sudden change of front seems to
leave no doubt as to the nature of the infu-
euces brought to bear. 1t is a case for rigid
investi oation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

fees the greater part of the money that was
awarded to her on the trial of suit. The
female mind seems to have great difficulty in
grasping the fact that legal ethics are very
different from the code of morality of the Or
binary citizen. A study of the Jacob Sharp
trial, which demonstrates that lawyers may
join in criminal conspiracies, in professional
way, and yet remain respected members of So
ciety should be prescribed for women who are
inclined to find fault with their counsel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05
Notes of the Festival.

Members or the chorus will be admitted free
to the matinees.
All the various committees will meet at Roberts
Park NJ E. Church. this morning at $40
o'clock.
The Lyra and Mannerchor societies will keep
open house during the continuance of the fes-
tival
Mr. Van der Stucken has, within one month,
conducted orchestral concerts in Berlin, Prussia,
and Indianapolis.
Albert R. Parsons, pianist, many years ago a
resident of this city, and VIM. Mason, both
celebrated pianists, will be here.
1t is understood that Arthur Whiting who Is
announced for piano solo with orchestral ac-
compartment, has declined to play.
The chairman Of the finance committee. Geo.
W. Johnston, requests that all persons having
bills against the executive committee present
them to him at once
II. E. G.. Krehbie musical critic of the New
York Tribune, and Marc A. Bumenberg. editor
of the New York Musical Courier. in attend
ance upon the convention.
Miss Neallie Stevens who is to give a piano
cita at Tomlinson Hall. this afternoon, is a
neice Of Rev. DR.. Jeffery of this city. and with
her mother is a guest of the Doctors.
Among the delegates is Prof. 2. NJ. Parvin
who comes 2 500 miles. He is from Oregon,
and is professor in the Conservatory of Music
at Salem in that State 1t is probable that he
will be the only delegate from that State.
Governor Gray. in his reception of the visitors
at the State mouse, on Friday evening, will be
Inittee and their wives This reception is ten
dered to the Music Teachers National Associa-
ton, the various musical societies of the State.
the music teachers and their friends The music
at the reception will be furnished by the Lyra
Society.
The admission price 30 the matinees at Tom
linson Hall on Wednesday and Thursday after
moons will be 80 cents. Admission to sessions OF
convention at Roberts Park Church. which in
ciudes various recitals. will be % cents. Ad-
mission to grand concerts at Tomlinson Hall will
be ST. reserved seat, 81. 90 season ticket. 81 The
sale of season tickets to the concerts will close
to-day at noon. All persons holding orders
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

ONE of the tasks required of each of the
candidates for promotion in the Adjutant-
generals office, at Washington, the writ
ing of a brief essay the influence of the
press It is not clear what the press has to do
with the official business of the Adjutant-
general, but there is no doubt it has great in
fluence with Democrats in office, civil service
examiners included, and the clerks might
have written long essays bearing on this
noint
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05
The Music Teachers of the State.


The State music-teachers' convention met yes
terday afternoon at Plymouth Church lecture
room. The president, Mrs Flora NJ. Hunter,
indianapolis. delivered the annual address She
called attention to the fact that music in Amer
lea was undergoing evolution little known to
the general public. It is being learned that
years Of study requisite where months had
been deemed sufficient to place one in position
to teach others. Indiana was the first to organ
ize q State association, which, beginning with
thirtv-three members last year. had 122 in at
tendance at the convention. She called atten-
ton TO the lamentable ignorance of many who
teach an ignorance not confined to the West.
Max Leckner, Alex. Ernestinoff, Anna McKen-
zie, Indianapolis; q. NJ. Cole Richmond; Ella
M. Hit. Vincennes, were appointed q committee
to nominate officers for the ensuing year. The
present officers were reported and the report
adopted, the following being the officers chosen:
President-Flora NJ. Hunter. Indianapolis
Secretary-Barclay Walker, Indianapolis.
Treasurer. T. Reece, Connersville
Representative Board-Chairman, Max Leckner.
A resolution welcoming the visitors to the ma
tional convention was passed. The meeting
was addressed briefly by Johannes Wolfram,
president of the Ohio Music-teachers Associa-
ton; by J. Coe Stewart, former president of
that association; Mr.. Stanley. of Providence r.
T., ex president of the Music teachers National
Association, and others Indianapolis was
lected as the place for holding the next annual
meeting of the State association, and tho meet
ing then adjourned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

WHEN the WORKOUT and dangerous Vim
cennes bridge, near this city, has been patched
up again for use, the officers and directors of
the road ought to be required to make test
trip over it on an extra weighted train. Let
platform car train be loaded with stone about
three times as heavy as an ordinary freight
train, then put the officers and directors of the
road aboard and send them across.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

THE concert at Tomlinson Hail, tonight,
will offer programme of choice music, clos
ing with an overture in which the 'Star-
spangled Banner will be introduced, and the
audience requested to join in the chorus.
This is appropriate to the season and will give
the periodically inclined a chance to help
swell the chorus of the national anthem.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

SOMETHING will have to be done for the
protection of the legal profession. One New
York woman who has lost her case before the
courts is going to sue everybody connected
with it, her own lawyers included. for con-
spiracy, and now comes another who tried to
stab her attorney because he has retained as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

MAYORS and police boards may issue
proclamations, but they cannot extinguish
fireworks on the 9TH of July while the
American small boy continues to exist. They
are part of the day and he will have 'em.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

THE temperance of Eliza Pinkston and
the dungeon toad" in the columns of the
Sentinel, simultaneously with the return of
the former editor of that paper, forms what
may be called genuine Democratic renais-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

COMPTROLLER TRENHOLM expresses him
of bank examiners. Perhaps something might
be accomplished by requiring the present ex-
lnniners to examine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

A LOCAL assembly of the Knights of Labor
in Washington voted not to read the Declare
ton of Independence on the Fourth of July,
and the leaders insisted that the 7th of Sep
TENDER, Labor Day." occasion far
more worthy of observance. 1t is not pleas
ant to hear such unpatriotic expressions from
the capital of the Nation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

AS the negroes become educated and fit to
vote, the present interference with their
suffrage will disappear, and, happily, there
never was d time when the education of the
race proceeding so rapidly as now.-New
York Evening Post
Does the Post refer to that method of
education" now being practiced in South
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

DISAPPOINTED picnckers console them
selves with the reflection that the rain was
good for the crops-at least if they don't
they ought to.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

TEN BROCK, the great Kentucky racer. who
died recently will not rot in an unhonored
grave. Mr.. Frank Harper, his late owner,
writes: 1--WE laid him to rest in a nice coffin.
and buried him in front of his stable-door. His
grave is still decorated with flowers. We are
going to erect nice monument over his last
resting place. and inclose it with fence. The
stables are all draped in mourning, as is also the
front gate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05
A Good Suggestion.

Philadelphia Press.
General Master Workman Powderly's temper
ance talks 20 his fellow Knights of Labor are
among his strongest and soundest utterances.
When he retires from his present position the
order could not do better than give him salary
and set him TO organizing temperance leaguea
among the knights.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

THE members of the St. Louis City Council
franchise at the bidding of Jay Gould do not
appear to have the fate of the New York
aldermen before their eyes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05
TIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places
LONDON-American Exchange in Europe, 449
Strand
PARIs-Amerfcan Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard
des Capucines.
EEW YORK-Gedney House and Windsor Hotels.
CHICAGO-Palmer House.
CINCINNATI. p. Hawley s. Co., 154 Vine street.
LOUISVILLE-C T. bearing. northwest
Third and Jefferson streets.
ST. LOUIS-Union News Company, Union Depot
and Southern Hotel
WASHINGTON. d. C.-Riggs House and Ebbitt
House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

NOBODY in indianapolis need hesitate to
make their coal contracts for next winter at
the old prices.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

POSTMASTER JONES did not raise the flag
of the country over the federal building until
o'clock yesterday. Perhaps this was out of
respect to the President and his sentiments
regarding flags.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

JOHN BOYLE OREILLY is head-lined in Pitts
burg paper as Father O'Reilly." Although
Mr.. O'Reilly is poet an editor and a champion
of ireland. and consequently an admirable sort
of man, there is really very little of the eccle-
siastic about him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

MARK TWAIN was advertised to umpire base
ball game at Elmira, N. Y, on Saturday, but
decline ed con account OF the weather." 1t may
have been the weather and it may have been the
instinct Of self preservation that influenced him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

WHEN Secretary Endicott shall have re-
igned the country will be with him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

The rumored death of Jay Gould is not be-
ieved in st. Louis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

Telephone Calls.
Business Office 23S Editorial Rooms ------242
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05
A Critical Forecast.


The large stage of Tomlinson Hall WAS crowded
last night by the chorus Of four hundred voices
and Van der Stucken's New York orchestra of
forty players, upon the occasion OF the first full
rehearsal of the choral parts Of the festival
certs. AS the performance was merely the first
attempt at uniting chorus AID orchestra in the
more difficult parts of the lew works, it was
only to have been expected that good
deal of cutting and fitting had to
be INDUCED. After few minutes
of uncertainty. however, the forces began to
move more easily together. 1t was then appar-
ent that the body OF tone was large and tho
quality fresh and pleasing In spite of the COM
paratively small numbers of the orchestras its
tones completely dominated and at times over
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

THE saloons were closed yesterday, but there
was q suspicious amount Of business and socia-
bility about the drug stores.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05
r /, 1874.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Please give me the date of the abduction of
Charley Ross. A READER
July /, 1874
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-05

sists in terrorizing the negroes with threats
that they will be whipped hanged if they
indulge in any sort of organization
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-06-20

root and the grace Of God has been wide
ly extended. But are we to stop ant
/ est with the victories we have won? No
not while there is the glorious work be
fore us in which we have as yet only
entered on the threshold. The many
little failures we have had let us bury IL
oblivion, like the split milk over which
there is no use crying; but in Christian
ity, as well as in our social life, let us
always be looking ahead and striving to
do that which we have not yet accom-.
plished.
EVENING SERVICES.
In the evening, according to an.
nouncement, grand praise service was
held, and the large congregation that
attended was amply rewarded by the
choice music which was set forth for
their qualification. The choir was CON-
posed of Messrs. Vigneron, Williams,
Shaw. E. Williams, Bristol, Howard
and Nebin. Mrs. j. G. Ogilvie at the
organ and Miss Ryder at the piano per-
formed their parts with much skill. MIR.
Vigneron's tenor singing was as fine an
effort of vocalization as one could wishfor,
and in the choruses the choir rendered
their parts in very acceptable manner.
The following Is the programme of the
proceedings:
l. Duet, piano and organ.
2. Chorus by choir.
3. Hymn No. Ill.
4. Tenor Duet.
s Scripture reading and prayers by Rev.
p w. Dorsey.
G. Ave Maria, choir.
Z. Duett, piano and organ.
8. Remarks by Mr.. Dorsey.
9. Hymn No. 1G7.
10. Hymn No. 2S2
IL. Chorus bv choir.
IL. Benediction.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-06-20
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
Rev. r. w. Dorsey breaches His
sixth Annual Sermon.

Yesterday morning, at the First Bap'
tist Church, the Rev. P. w. Dorsey
preached his sixth annual sermon to
large congregation. 1t will be remem.
bered that Mr.. Dorsey is one of the
pioneer ministers of Los Angeles, in
fact, of the State, and during his long
residence here he has done much to pro-
mote the organization of which he is a
prominent member. Mr.. Dorsey an
nounced his text as from Philip, @. 3, ".
l3, reading Forgetting those things
that are behind and reaching forward to
those things that are before" In the
course of his sermon he said: Paul
tells us in his works that the grand OBJ
ject of his life was to press for
ward to the marks of a Christ-like
manhood. His greatest fears were that
he had not yet attained to the full COM
pletion of his powers, and lest he should
be called away before he had done so.
And he says that the only way to obtain
this completion was, firstly, by forget.
ting the past and. secondly, by reaching
out for the future. In the words of the
great Apostle himself, 'That which
have done is far behind me, and my eye
is turned eagerly to the dawning light OF
day." -,
| fortunately live more on the men,
ory OF the good actions we have
done, than by those that are be-
fore us. But that is not the
true way. What would we think of 9
runner who, when the race was half run
stopped, content with what he hat
done, and not striving any more t.
reach the goal for which he had started
A true Christians life should be I
steady growth, vision of the glorious
possibilities to which he may attain
So far we have received only the small
est part of the great gifts which ar
awaiting those who seek them. Durini
the six years during which this churcl
has been organized we have accom-
plished much good. Three othe
lchurches have sprung from ou